In a man’s world, female healthcare is a missed opportunity. Period.

Companies like Pexxi are doing just this: starting from scratch by building a dataset with hundreds of datapoints on an individual woman and using this to recommend the right contraceptive for her unique profile. Wild.ai is also collecting data on individual women and is building an algorithm for personalised fitness recommendations that operate in... See more

It is then fair to assume that most of what we know about health is actually specific to men. Comparably, we know very little about women’s health.

Women make up only 19% of the participants in clinical trials in HIV research despite making up 50% of the affected population.